Croatia is considering its mGrađani digital identity application as a tool for electronic age verification while European institutions develop new online child-protection rules. The government says the application already supports a privacy-preserving way to confirm that a user is over 18.
Age proof without full identity disclosure
The Croatian Ministry of Justice, Public Administration and Digital Transformation said more than 204,000 citizens use mGrađani. Its age-verification function is designed to provide an eligibility result rather than disclose a person’s full identity record to an online service. That distinction can reduce unnecessary data exposure when a service only needs proof of age.
The proposal is being discussed as Croatia prepares its position on the emerging EU KIDS Act framework. The final European rules and the technical role of national identity applications are still developing, so the announcement should not be read as a completed mandatory deployment.
Implementation questions remain
Age-verification systems need clear legal purpose, data-minimization controls, accessible alternatives and testing against exclusion or circumvention. Operators also need assurance that relying services cannot silently expand the information requested beyond the age claim. SectechMedia follows related identity architecture in its access control and identity channel.
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